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...The Truth Detective: How to Make Sense of a World That Doesn’t Add Up by Tim Harford (Wren & Rook)With the help of a cast of characters from Sherlock Holmes to Florence Nightingale, the FT Undercover Economist...
...(I have bought its trusty Sherlock sofa for myself and clients several times.) Some traditional-looking sofas don’t fit the bill, looking frumpy instead of elegant....
...I particularly like its Sherlock sofa — I have one at home — which comes with fixed feather-filled back cushions and loose feather-filled seat cushions....
...Guy Bass’s smart tale offers some excellent twists, with Edward Gorey-style illustrations by Pete Williamson enhancing the comedy-Gothic atmosphere. Finally, three picture books....
...It is the same dichotomy embodied in the works of De Quincey, Baudelaire, Rimbaud and later in Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, the flâneur as student of human nature, able to lose himself in the city and...
...I head to Greystones, a coastal town south of Dublin, to meet Gaye Brennan and her husband Gerry Edwards....
...And that, to quote Sherlock Holmes, was the curious incident. Earnings in the US have been nothing short of astonishing....
...Choose paints, such as Edward Bulmer Natural Paint, that list all the ingredients....
...Just as Sherlock Holmes observed in The Adventure of Silver Blaze, the most significant thing can be an absence — in the story, it was the dog that did not bark in the night-time....
...Talus, who combines the cerebral prowess of Sherlock Holmes with the physicality of Conan the Barbarian, is a strong, well-rounded character who could easily support a long-running series of adventures....
...While these and other figures are mentioned just once or twice, Frayling brings up the late cultural critic Edward Said several times....
...Sir Michael Edwards, 76, a London-born poet, philosopher and literary critic, is the first Briton to become an immortal, as the academy’s members are known....
...“This is not just about where we buy timber to build the sets,” said Edward Thomas, co-producer and designer....
...The largest estimate in the sale, at $50,000-$70,000, is for a nine-page autograph manuscript of a Sherlock Holmes parody entitled “The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield”, from A Spaniard in the...
...Framestore, one of Europe’s largest visual effects and computer animation studios, which boasts Harry Potter and the recent Sherlock Holmes film among its credits, has linked up with two further-education...
...Traces Remain is as deliciously readable and absorbing as top-notch Sherlock Holmes. Ian Thomson is author of ‘Primo Levi: A Biography’ (Vintage)...
...Edward Stourton is a writer and broadcaster. His most recent book is ‘Diary of a Dog Walker: Time Spent Following a Lead’ (Transworld) …………………………………………………………….....
...In Sherlock, Cumberbatch was directed to show a universal condescension, starting with Watson....
...At Last , by Edward St Aubyn, Picador, RRP£16.99 The FT called St Aubyn’s novel, the fifth in the extraordinary cycle charting the life of Patrick Melrose, “a miraculously wrought piece of art”....
...As Neil Sherlock, a party adviser said: “Lib Dems don’t dine for ideological reasons.”...
...chief executive of Next Dolar Popat: Ugandan-born Indian millionaire and Tory donor Margaret Eaton: Chair of the Local Government Association John Gardiner: deputy chief exec of Countryside Alliance Edward...
...Television shows such as Most Haunted and Crossing Over With John Edward, both hosted by mediums, get good ratings. Stage mediums remain a box-office draw in provincial theatres....
...A hazard of living near Baker Street is being asked, quite often, the way to Sherlock Holmes’s house. There are three ways to treat this question....
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